by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 28, 2025 | Bret Stephens, Ken Burns, Revolutionary War, Sara Hale, Thanksgiving
At least we are beyond construction paper pilgrim hats and goose feathers! There is now real discussion of the relationships among the first Europeans in North America and the Wampanoags and other tribes in “New” England. We don’t stop to think when we say “New...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 21, 2024 | Germans, Holocaust, Ken Burns, Palestine
I recently watched the Ken Burns documentary on “The US and the Holocaust,” some of it for the second time. I have visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. multiple times. I had a good friend, now deceased, whose US Army Tank unit liberated the Buchenwald...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 25, 2023 | beaver, beaver hats, buffalo, Ken Burns, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Fisheries, Oregon, salmon
The new Ken Burns documentary, the American Buffalo, follows the Euro-Americans across the continent as they kill buffalo, kill them mostly for profit—meat for the railroad workers; tongues which fetched high prices as culinary delicacies in the East; buffalo robes...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 2, 2017 | American Indian Magazine, Custer, Hollow Horn Bear, Ken Burns, NMAI, Plymouth colony, Pontiac
Hollow Horn Bear–1923 US Postage StampI’ve been a big fan of Ken Burns’ documentaries—like many I watched the Civil War series as it came out; like many (though not as many) watched “Baseball” explore the post Civil War Civil Rights journey; and I caught most of...
